On March 4, 1954, the District Attorney's Office in Dresden received a peculiar telegram: "On April 5, 1954, a wedding will take place in Dresden ... it concerns Paul Rebenstock ... I request the person in charge of this matter to ... appear at the ceremony." Paul Rebenstock, a Stasi chief commissioner suspected of treason, was not expecting a wedding party at the venue, but rather the guillotine, and the registrar was none other than the executioner. Former GDR diplomat Klaus Behling addresses a topic in his new work that, despite its urgency, has been little known until now: the death sentences imposed in the GDR against employees of the intelligence services. Over two dozen members of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) and the Military Intelligence of the National People's Army ended their lives at the S.